Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:33:40 -0500
> 
> You're right, but I think we are having a miscommunication.
> I'm not saying we should poll the users about this.
> That wasn't the intention at all.
> 
> Here's the discussion that led up to it:
> 
>     > I'd prefer to find a binding to which people could agree, because that
>     > would leave fewer people unhappy.
> 
>     How do we know that?  Users haven't been polled,
>     have they?  Emacs users and Emacs have survived
>     for 35+ years without a global binding for
>     `revert-buffer'.  Why assume that most users now
>     would be happier if it had a global binding?
> 
> So I added
> 
>     More than that.  Over that time, how often have people
>     asked for such a global binding?
> 
> My point was that we should not assume there is a lot of demand for
> this change.

You agreed with Drew who said a poll was needed (although now he
denies that).

More generally, the expectation that we poll the user to substantiate
decisions or opinions is expressed more and more frequently lately, on
more than one or two occasions, which is the background for what I
wrote.